Friday

Kitchen Makeover

After almost 10 years of living in my house I thought it was time to do a remodel job to our kitchen. It looked tired and for sure dated. I had some experience with paint and a few carpentry skills doing other little projects around the house, so, my thought was: “Sure, I can do it!”

Well, it was not that easy. But if I have to do it again, I will gladly do it, especially with the gained experience.This is how it looks now:

This is how it looked before:And here you can see (well, behind the plant), the microwave taking counter-top space:Overall, I wanted a makeover, keeping everything in its place or to a minimum change. My budget: the less, the better.

Things that bothered me the most: Microwave on top of counter, open space above kitchen cabinets, laminate counter-tops, old appliances, lack of a back-splash, re-circulating fan and side-view of kitchen island because from the family room the most visible thing was an outlet (it looked like a pimple!), in the center of the island.

First thing to do: Updating the island and installing the microwave inside it. Check all the diy work done here.

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Your kitchen remodel is absolutely gorgeous! I hope you'll answer two questions for me...first, where did you get the gorgeous light fixture over the island? And second, did you tile over the laminate backsplash that was originally on your wall, or did you remove it first--and if so, how??

Hi Korrie, Thank you for your comment! The light fixture is from CB2, at the top is the Resources Page where you can get more info.No, I did not tile over the laminate backsplash, that little strip of laminate backsplash was removed by pulling it with a pray bar, making sure not to damage the dry wall! b/cause it was glued pretty dearly by the builder! The marble tile was laid over the drywall after installing the countertops. More info here:http://www.remodelandolacasa.com/2012/01/installing-marble-backsplash.html

Gorgeous!! It turned out beautiful...My kitchen is a project that needs to be done, but I keep putting it off! I need to gather the energy to paint our cabinets! I'm now following your blog.Sallyloveofhomes.blogspot.com

Cristina,I pinned your kitchen a few weeks ago, its gorgeous. I am going to feature it in a series I am posting on DIYing your kitchen at www.11magnolialane.com. I love your attitude--you and my (Magnolia Lane) girl Christy could pretty much DIY anything, I am SO impressed!Blessings,Amywww.11magnolialane.com

Love it, love it, love it! Great job! I also have a microwave on the countertop and it bothers me! Found you from Centsational Girl (we were both featured!) and I'm glad I did because I found so many inspirational themes here! Of course I'm now following you! And if you'd decide on stopping by my place, I'd be more than happy! :)Have a lovely evening!

What an inspiring kitchen...The before and afters is incredible!!! We just finished our kitchen makeover too...tons of work, but definetly worth it!http://imprintalish.blogspot.com/2012/03/kitchen-reveal.html

Great update! I like the look after you took the molding to the ceiling. I'm wondering how tall your ceilings are in your kitchens? I'm trying to figure out if I can pull that off in my kitchen...Although mine are 12 foot I think..

You have inspired me to update my kitchen. Yours is one of the best remodels I've seen, and I like you and your husband's DYI mentality. It is BEAUTIFUL. Hope to pull up my sleeves and start on my real soon. Maria M.

As I am workking on my kitchen I have to stop and check out other projects to keep myself inspired. I love what you did! I wish I had a best friend like you. We could knock out each others projects in no time!

Thanks Anonymous! No, the ceiling and window trim were painted each a different white color. I don't remember the color I used for the ceiling, the window and all the trim in our house is painted Behr Swiss Coffee. The appliances are LG.

What are the dimensions of your kitchen? It looks like a similar layout to mine, but a bit wider. I'm looking into ideas to remodel our kitchen as we are coming up to 10 years in our house. I was thinking about expanding my kitchen, but looking at yours, maybe I don't need to. I LOVE your remodel!

Your kitchen transformation is FABULOUS Cristina and what I love the most is that it's got that special touch in the decorations, ONLY YOU have..with such great taste and talent. You can hardly believe it's the old kitchen!! The chandy is amazing. Gorgeous everything, my friend! Hope you're having a wonderful VALENTINE'S DAY!LOVE,FABBY

Your kitchen and all the DIYs you put into it are so, so inpiring as we contemplate remodeling our kitchen. I can't believe you built that hood (and did the duct work!) I'm so excited to back through all your posts…..thank you so much for sharing all the projects that went into it!

Thank you so much for letting us know this one. I'm glad to see your kitchen Remodeling services. Very attractive design I like it. I will visit your blog everyday to look if there is an update. Anyway if you want to have an example of Kitchen Remodeling services online.good information..!!!

Hi Emily, the shade is the same brown roman shade but I used fabric to give it another look. You can see the how to right here: http://www.remodelandolacasa.com/2013/10/give-your-roman-shades-new-look.html

Hi Cristina!! I fell in love with your kitchen cabinet remodel!! My husband and I had "before" cabinets just like yours so when I saw how you transformed them, I knew I wanted to do that as well to ours... and we did!!! I just uploaded a blog post showing our kitchen cabinet update and I linked back to your blog. I would love for you to look at my blog so you can see how our kitchen cabinets turned out....all because of you!! :) We would have liked to add finishing details like a backsplash and so forth but we were moving to DC and time was against us. I love your blog and think you are very talented!! xo Anna www.crazygorgeous.net

That's one of the most economical parts. I used MDF / plywood. It would be around $200 max. Not counting the cabinet above the fridge. What usually brings the budget up are the tools, if you don't have them.